SPEED OF AMERICAN CITIES AMAZED LLOYD GEORGE
By DAVID LLOYD GEORGE.
Special Cable to Tfaa Omaha Baa.
London, Dec. 29.—As I cannot find
tin* In the exigencies of an unexam
pled political crista to write fully of
^y American trip, I propose Just to
^pte two or three vivid recollections
X the Journey.
And to begin with, there comes my
first acquaintanceship with American
audiences. They are undoubtedly
amongst the best In the world. Amer
icans are good listeners. They make
the kind of audience an Intelligent
democracy ought to produce. They
give you the Impression that they
want to hear what Is to be said for
the point of view, and that they will
pay the same attention to a state
ment of the opposite case before they
decide.
I was particularly delighted with
the audiences In the middlewest. There
was an evident anxiety to find out
what were the real facts about Eu
rope and an earnest desire to pursue
the right policy at whatever cost.
They seek wealth there with persis
tent skill and an Indomitable enter
prise.
But those who think the formid
able people who throng the Missis
sippi valley are thinking only of
riches do them a great injustice. The
Mk0£ess with which they give to
churuhes, Institutions and causes is
without parallel in any country in
the world.
Great leader Needed.
When America Is convinced that It
Is her duty to save Europe from ruin,
and that by Intervening It ran save
this distracted continent, America will
take the task In hand—and not till
then.
Self-Interest alone wltll not move
America to action. There must be
some impulse of more exalted charac
ter. But like all national movements,
It Is largely a question of leadership.
A great leadership could set Amen*
ica going tomorrow on an irresistible
crusade. Will It come?
I saw many exceptionally able men.
and I heard a good deal of others.
Is there one of them with the divine
spark In his soul? If there be, then
salvation is of the Americans.
One discovery I made during my
tour which was most gratifying to
me. The attitude of Irishmen toward
Great Britain has been completely
changed by the setting up of the free
state In Ireland. I was received by
notable Jrlsh leaders in every state
and city I visifed, with cordiality
which warmed my heart.
Three years ago no Irishman could
have Joined In a welcome to a British
minister or ex-minister. Such is the
change effected In a short space of
time by this concession. It lias re
moved from the path of statesmen
who desire co-operation between the
British empire and the T’nlted States
of America the one Insuperable ob
stacle. As long as that remained, no.
party In American polities could safe
ly commit its fortunes to open and
avowed friendship with Great Britain.
Cities 1 like Giants.
The great cities of the north and
middle-west which I visited—New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minne
apolis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Indian
apolis and Scranton—were like gianls
forging ahead with demoniac energy
that nothing in Europe can rival.
The scale and the speed are bewil
dering to the European mind.
I wish I had more time to examine
the full meaning and effect of this
tremendous hustle. That it makes
wealth I could see everywhere. Does
It make for happiness? It ought to.
Wages Just now are high compared
with Europe In certain trades. Are
all trades equally well paid? What
about the cost of living? Then what
about the steadiness of employment?
What happened In 1920-21 shows
that unemployment, like everything
else in this vast country, when it
comes is on a colossal scale. What
happens then lo the workless? There
are many more questions bearing on
the condition snd status of the
worker I should have liked
to have inquired Into.
Noutli Fascinating.
The southern states have a fasefna
tlon of their own which envelhpn ami
possesses. You begin to feel It In
Kentucky, and In Virginia It was
complete. The atmosphere of hurry
vanishes when you cross the Invisible
southern line. life is a quieter and
gentler affair. In the north, the
strain Is toward the future. In the
south they keep In closer touch with
tho past with Its softening Influences.
The north has not forgotten the
civil war, but it haa not pitched its
tent there. It has passed along. Hln
coln, It Is true, Is today a living
force and figure. But that is not so
much on account of the Interest In
events of 60 years ago but because,
like all great men, his "soul goes
marching on.” He Is even more the
man of today than he vm the man
of yesterday. His stride will ever
Keep pace with the centuries.
I.lncoln and Jackson.
But the heart of the south is stir
in the heroio days of their great
struggle for state rights. The dour
figure on the little sorrel still rides
triumphantly through their mem
ories. I have always been drawn by
the personality of Stonewall Jackson.
Tlo and Abraham Lincoln are the two
great Americans who especially ex
cite my Interest and admiration.
It Is only when you hear of Stone
wall Jackson romping with the little
children In the houses where he was
quartered during his campaigns that
you understand what a gentle crea
ture there was underneath that
fierce exterior. That puts him In the
same exalted order as Lincolu, a
lover of mankind with special ten
derness for the w'eak. lie was as
clean from hatred and revenge as
Lincoln. Fundamentally, also, they
were both religious men with tender
hearts, although one loved God ac
cording to strict rules end the other
without measure.
Lee Divinity; Jackson Hern.
I was impressed with the potency
of Stonewall Jackson's personality
during my conversations at Richmond
with some of the survivors of the
civil war. I had the privilege, which
£ greatly prized,' of talking to fully
70 of these veterans. When General
Lee's name was mentioned. It was
with the hush and solemnity which
betoken reverence. On the other hand.
Stonewall Jackson's name evoked
notes of Intense affection as well as
admiration. T.ee 1* s divinity. Jaca
son la the hero.
I asked an old confederate veteran,
who had served under Bee and
worshipped 1dm, "Do you remember
the death of Stonewall Jackson?"
"Oh, yes." he replied with a break
In his voice, "when we heard of It
we all cried like children."
T asked another fine old soldier
who had served under Beauregard
what was the effect of the news of
Jacksons death on the confederate
army.
“Oh," lie replied sadly, "we thought
It was all over.” Then he added,
“We never won a battle after he
died."
I counted myself specially fortunate
In my journey through the battle
fields. SecreSBry Weeks was kind
enough himself to show me over the
battleground of Gettysburg, where
the fate of the great republic was de
elded In a memorable three-day
struggTe. Mr. Weeks has made a spe
clal study of the Civil war. and he
knew every maneuver In the great
battle and every division and captain
who took part in the fight.
Blind Agents of Destiny
Iiee’s stupendous blunder In at
tacking over open ground a stronger
and better equipped force, entrenched
on the heights, leaves you w'ondering
wneiner e\en uip Kit-mroi men
not blind agent* of destiny and have
to obey when the order comes from
beyond the veil. Hence the blunder
of Gettysburg.
I came back more convinced than
even that the hope of mankind In the
Immediate ftjture depends on the ex
tent to which the two greatest com
monwealths on earth can be persuaded
to work together In world affairs. 1
know everything that Is to be said
about America not being Anglo-Saxon.
Neither are the British Isles, and the
British empire lias a greater variety
of races and tongues than even the
United States of America.
Common language, Uterature.
All the same, the empire is governed
by the same mixture of Celt. Teuton
and Norseman that rules America.
The identity of the language must lead
to an absorption of the same literature
for the great name of the people The
same literature in the end means the
same ideals.
All the greatest men of America
are of British stock, and their ideals
and lives were fashioned by the
teachings of the same prophets and
priests whose thoughts were conveyed
to America through the medium of the
same tongue a« influenced the minds
of the great leaders of Britain.
Today British literature flows nat
ui niij <mv --—
American literature In ari ever In
creasing flood is pouring into British
channels. The association between
the powerful Protestant churches on
both sides of the Atlantic is becoming
every year closer and more intimate.
The fact that over two-thirds of the
population of the United States re
ceive the same spiritual training a*
the people of Britain not only weaves
bonds of brotherhood between them,
but must have its effect In giving
the same direction to the outlook and
vision of the two nations.
Memories of outrages perpetrated
by a king on the road to insanity
have too long kept these two mighty
nations apart. The oppression of
Ireland kept these memories alive by
giving a sense of continuity to the
policy of wrong. These wrongs are
all now dead and buried. There is no
sense I nartlfieially keeping alive the
evil passions they germinated.
The peace of the world is at stake.
It 1k a question of the path along
which the human race elects to
travel. One Pads to j>eace, prosper
ity and unlimited progress. The
other leads to bloodshed, desolation
and infinite ruin. America and
Britain together can shepherd the
world along the right course.
(Copyright. 1323 )
WELLS URGES WORLD CONTROL OF TRADE AND INDUS 1 KY
By H. G. WELLS.
Author of ‘'Outlines of History."
(Special Cubic to The Omaha Hcc)
London, Dec. 29.—Some times
words for quite unaccountable rea
sons get down on their luck. They
lose caste, they drop out of society,
nobody will be seen about with them.
A word for which I have the
greatest sympathy is "cosmopolitan.”
I want to see it restored to a re
spectable use. But for more than
eMftt the English speaking people who
^ hear it, I suppose, it carries with it
the quality of a shady, illicit Indi
vidual with a bad complexion, a falsi
fied passport and a police record.
This creature, to be typical, should
he mixed up with the drug traffic and
H danger to the Inexperienced and
fconest everywhere: Monte Carlo Is
the idea of heaven for such a cos
mopolitan and Ellis Island the cor
responding hell. •‘Internationalist”
would be a better word for a man or
woman who passes between country
and country and belongs to none. But
I do not see why we should punish
a word because it has been stupidly
misapplied.
"City of tlie World."
For what is Oosmopolis but the city
of the world, and what can a cosmo
politan be but a good citizen wherev
er he goes? That is what I want to
be and not "^international,”—which
seems to me an altogether homeless
adjective. It means, I take it, “in
between nations”—in between the
substantial things of life.
The only truly International thing
is the ocean outside territorial waters.
Trying to be international is like
trying to walk about on the cracks
between the boards Instead of walk
ing on the floor. I cannot Understand
why we tack this dismal adjective
nowadays on all our attempts to get
human brotherhood put upon a
broader basis than parochial or na
tional feeling. I am an Englishman
and a cosmopolitan, a good English
man and I hope a good cosmopolitan.
My emotional equipment as a faith
ful son of England I claim to be sound
and complete. Eondon is mine, as no
other city can ever lie; have seen it
grow and change and become ever
more wonderful and beautiful and
dear to me since first I came up to it
half a century ago.
Other Cities Charm.
But Paris also, open and elegant.
with a delicate excitement In ita air;
New York, the towering and beauti
ful; many a south German town;
Venice; Home; frosty and sullen Petro
grad; have charmed me, and I want
a share in their happiness and wel
fare. Cosmopolis is all these cities
and a thousand others and I want to
be free of them all.
But the world is full of stupid peo
ple who will not let nve be free of
Cosmopolis. They make my Kngland
almost a Jail for me by Inventing a
thousand Inconveniences if I want to
go out of it.
There are passport offices and
tariff offices stuck across every path
of travel and desire; there are differ
ences in coinage and a multitude of
petty restrictions to exasperate every
attempt I make at holiday in my
Europe. The afreets of Cosmopolls
are up and barricaded; I want to
break down these barricades.
I'nifortn Coinage.
There is not a reasonable and hon
est man in the world who does not
want a uniform coinage about the
earth. Only the greedy, cunning ex
change speculator wants either varied
coinages or a variety of stamps in
this world.
If the league of nations at Geneva
wasn’t the most dismal sham on earth
it would run the posts of Europe and
have a mint of Its own. Wherever
one goes In Europe one Is loaded up
with foreign money that ceases to be
current after a day's Journey. And
every silly little scrap of Europe Is
pretending to be a separate economic
system. Every hundred miles or so
in Europe there 1* a fresh tariff bar
rier.
Everybody, except a few monop
olists and officials, loses by tariffs.
They are devices for gaining a little
for some particular section of man
kind at the cost of an Infinitely
greater loss to (,'osmopolis. Mean and
narrow in conception, they are abom
inable in action.
It Is an intolerable nuisance to be
searched for tobacco and matches by
some sedulous eater of garlic be
fore one may enter France from Eng
land, and to have one's portmanteau
locks broken and one or two minor
possessions stolen whenever one goes
into Italy.
The quays of New- York, again
after the arrival of a liner are a
grossly indecent spectacle. Much as
I like New York. I never miss a mnn
of Intense anger when the large hand
of the customs officer routs among
my underclothes.
And these are only minor incon
veniences of not living in Cos
mopolis, they are just the superficial
Indications that the world one moves
in is a thin crust hanging insecurely
above the abyss of war. I do not be
lieve any mere internationalism, any
league of nations, that leaves the
coinages separate and the customs
houses on tho frontiers and the pass
port officials busy at their little
wickets with their nasty rubber
stamps, can ever open the way to
world peace, 1 am for world control
of production and of trade and trans
port, for a world coinage, and the
confederation of mankind.
I Hill l l I1C OU^TTl O U1 U T_ Uli'j *v.
any league. Cosmopolis is my city
and I shall die cut off from it. When
I die I shall have lived only % part
of my possible life, a sort of life in a
corner.
And this is true of nearly ail the
rest of mankind. The world is a
patchwork of various sized intern*
ment camps called Independent sov
ereign states find we are each caught
in our bit of the patchwork and can
not find a way of escape.
But a day will come when custom
house officers will be as rare as high
waymen in Sussex, and when the only
passports in the world will be found
alongside of Aztec idols and Instru
ments of torture and such like relics
ut superstition in our historical mu
seums. (Copyright. 1122 )
FORD’S BOOST FOR COOLIDGE HAD ANTI-McADOO
MOTIVE
. j • wiia rantv hv
By MARK SULLIVAN.
Washington, Dec. 29.—Henry Ford's
announcement that Coolidge is all
right was universally Interpreted as
meant to help Coolidge no less for
the nomination than for the subse
tuent election. Undoubtedly, also.
Ford thinks highly of Coolidge.
In addition, there is some evidence
that Ford at heart has leanings to
ward the republican party which are
bred In the bone by the nature of
bis background and surroundings as
• youth.
And yet It Is doubtful If Ford’s an
nouncement was deliberately planned
•r definitely intended to have political
weight. All the circumstances show
that Ford’s interview was unpremedl
tated. Ford Is an impulsive person.
He says what comes Into his head.
It is an odd fact that the man who
has done more than any other one
to bring the quality of set standard
ization to American business is in
his own mental processes a man of
moods, impulsive, almost whimsical, a
^0hn of Instantly spontaneous utter
^snce of whatever comes Into his
nlnd.
Anti-Mr Adoo.
When Ford said he Is In favor of
Coolidge he didn't say anything about
McAdoo. But it would not be surpris
ing If he was moved by a wish to
prevent McAdoo from being president.
If one were to look on this as a care
fully prepared move one would feel
that Ford has surveyed the political
situation; that he had come to the
conclusion the two candidates wilt be
Coolidge and McAdoo; that he real
ized that any effort on his part to get
a nomination from either old party,
and especially any third party candi
dacy on his part, would tend to help
McAdoo as against Coolidge; and that
he made up his mind to avoid doing
anything that would tend to lift Mc
Adoo toward the White House.
Ford doesn't approve McAdoo. This
Is clearly proved by a correspondence
that passed by a kind of oblique In
direction between Ford and McAdob
last summer. The correspondence, as
regards part of it, had only a restrict
ed publication.
Ford Bitter Against Him.
One day last July Ford gave an
Interview to The Christian Science
JSonitor, in which lie said:
"When the government took over
the railroads McAdoo told me some
thing of the railroad situation and
asked me to tell him what I could
do about getting the engines and cars
repaired and In running order. X and
my men had worked out a little plan
for shoving the locomotives along anil
getting them In running order as
quickly as possible. Mr. McAdoo was
interested and asked me to work out
the details of the plan and to bring
them to Washington. I set my men
to wont and we brought the plan
back the next week. But McAdoo
would not see me. The exploiters had
got him In the mean time. They called
him off. They didn't want efficiency."
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Man 74 Years Old Is “Rejuvenated ’*
In 3 Weeks Without Gland Operation
Kansas Contractor Tolls of Wonderful
Results Obtained in Test
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Thomas J. Glascock, 74, well
known old time Kansas contractor,
declares he has virtually been made
young again by the recently discov
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to "gland treatments" as an lnvig
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"I feel like I did at 35,” says Mr.
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years’ standing disappeared almo>
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'jk riL"' Furthermore, when I began
■^Wing the compound, my memory was
virtually gone and I was almost
blind. Now my mind Is clear and
active and I can road the finest print
without difficulty.”
In order to find out whether the
.results were lasting, Mr. Glascock
waited six months before reporting
on his test of the discovery. On this
point he says:
"Kvery passing day strengthens my
conviction that my restoration is not
only ^complete, hut permanent. 1
can’t express l he happiness this great
discovery has brought to me. It has
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Similar reports are being made at
• most, dally. For Instance, D. W.
Wood ot New Orleans, past 60 years
of age, 'says: "The compound has
•brought me back to as good, healthy
physical condition as t enjoyed at
I am apparently ns supple as
at 20 and my eyesight is belter than1
for years. I would not take $6,000
for what the discovery has done for
tne.”
The compound Is a simple home
treatment In tablet form nnd Is
rated among (he many who have
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vigorator. Aetlng directly on lower
spinal nerve centers and blood ves
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"It Is wonderful." writes s resi
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• voung mutt. I am morn than happy
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world's wonder. I feel like J was
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THOM AH J. OIjASOOC K.
The compound has heen tested by
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the country and has won the praise*
of thousands who suffered from
nerve weakness, lessened or depleted
vigor, neurasthenia, premature age,
Impaired glandular activity and lack
of animation and vital force. Klderly
people have pronounced the discov
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thuslastic reports from users acclaim
the compound as giving speedy sat
Isfartlon In obstinate cases that had
defied all oilier treatments before
tried by them.
Realizing that thousands of en
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such news “too good to lie true," the
American distributors hove agreed to
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treatment of the korex compound ills
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cvei-yone who feel* the need of such
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without money, and pay two dollars
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either case, however, if you report
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the purchase price upon request
The laboratories ere nationally
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nobody need hesitate about accepting
their guaranteed offer. No custom
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out their permission.
There may he a thousand reasons
why McAdoo should not he president.
Multitudes of thoughtful persons dis
trust some of his qualities. Many who
like McAdoo personally for his dash,
fils gallantry', his headlong rushing
into nearly every situation that comes
up are more than a little dismayed
when they think of a president of
the United States having the same
qualities. But for Ford to say that
McAdoo could be "called off” by the
"exploiters" of the railroads is Just
plain slander.
“Exploiters” Are Enemies.
The pej-sons and the interests whom
Ford has In mind when he says "ex
plotters" are among precisely the per
sons who most detest McAdoo. who
are most alarmed to think of him
as president and who are working
hardest to prevent his becoming prest
dent. McAdoo is not corrupt and he
is not corruptible. Set that down in
the clearest words.
Nobody has ever “called him off
anything. He has never put himself
in a position such that anybody
could “call him off.”
However, to let the principals tell
the story In their ow n words. About
a month later McAdoo said:
"There is not a word of truth In
the Ford statement. It is pure imagi
nation. I telegraphed Ford July 26,
asking him to tell me the time when
and the place where he claims he
talked to me about repairing engines
and cars. But I cannot get a tyord
out of him."
The telegram McAdoo sent to Ford
read as follows:
"I.os Angeles, Cal., July 16. 1913.—
Henry Ford: You are quoted, etc.
. . . Will you kindly telegraph
me Immediately, my expense. If you
are correctly quoted In alleged Inter
view. Among other things, you are
quoted as saying. ‘When the govern
ment took over the railroads and put
Mr. MeAdoo at the head of them I
happened to be In Washington. Mr.
MeAdoo asked me to tell him what
I would do about getting the engines
and earn repaired and In running
order, etc.' If you are correctly re
ported I shall appreciate It If you
will give me the dale when and place
where you aay you talked with me
about this matter. W. G. M'ADOO.”
I;i answer Ford's secretary wrote
MeAdoo as follows:
• July 29, 1923 —Mr. W. G. MeAdoo,
Los Angeles. Cal.: Dear Mr. MeAdoo
—Answering your telegram of July
26: During the war. on on# of Mr.
Ford's trips to Washington, he had
a talk with you over the phone con
cerning the railroads of th# United
Hlates. It was Just about the tlrr.p
you were appointed director general.
"Mr. Ford requested you to send
him a letter which would enabls him
to gain admittance to some of the
railroad shops. This letter was later
sent by you and used by Mr. Ford.
It was his Intention to hnake certain
constructive suggestions to you
which. It was understood, were at,
your solicitation, and several weeks
later the writer called you on <he
phone, at which time Mr. Ford spoke
to you, stating he was sending me
to Washington to confer with you
and that a numlier of these construc
tive suggestions would be discussed
with you by the writer.
"On arrival at Washington I called
at your office In the Treasury depart
ment and was Informed you were at
the Interstate commerce comanlsslon.
"X later called at the Interstate
commerce commission and explained
my mission to the secretary, who
informed me you were not In the
building. After waiting around for
several hours the writer finally reach
ed the conclusion you either did not
care to see me or Mr. Ford's co oper
atlon was not desired, and I reported
to Mr. Ford by phone that evening.
‘Tt Is quite possible that you may
not recall these circumstances, and
It is likewise probable you may not
have been the person to whom Mr.
Ford spoke over the phone. If so, it
Indicates the kind and class of people
who surrounded you.
"A’ery truly yours.
“F. G. LIEBOLD.
“General Secretary to Henry Ford.’’
Ford Impudent.
That letter tells Its own story. How
far It recedes from the statements
made originally by Ford In his Inter
view will he clear to the reader
However. Ford's faults are the sort
that make men "love him still." They
are so plainly the faults of mere lack
of Information, lack of education, of
spontaneous speaking of his mind, of
breaking Into speech when under the
influence of strong feeling, of disre
gard of conventional reticences, of
violent prejudice. And the world tends
to admire and have affection for a
man of naturalness and apontaneltv.
a man really too transparent to con
ceal his prejudices and too essentially
honest to try to. Also, the world
knows that Ford In his erratic, reck- I
less way. Is nevertheless saying some
things that many other people think |
but refrain from saying because of an I
excess of prudence, which latter qual ;
lty. In the last analysis. Is less engag
ing and may even be for some occa
sions less useful than Ford’s palpable
lnprudence.
Idea* In Common.
Ford doesn't like McAdoo and does
ABE MARTIN On How to Buy a Christmas Necktie
m
TRIPLIN' HIM
Another Christ mull line jest about
rolled around, nn' 11 don’t seem over
an’ hour an’ a half since w* wins
Killin' n foot < ill off th' *1a©\cs of
our smokin' jacket. It s sweet, an*
still it's funny, how earnestly nn'
desperately most folks plunge hit’ th’
business o’ Christmas how they
worry nn' shove nn’ squirm an' push
an’ dig around t' find Jesi th’ light
thing fer some one they like nr love.
An’ It takes a lot o' quiet mumpin'
an’ detective work, too, t.’ find out
whether a favorite unci© has got any
underwear or not, or a certain niece
has got over one pair o' slockin'*,
or how a lot of friends nn' relative*
ire fixed fer this or that <'Ignis an
candy nn' flowers an' Jewelry have
alius been ole reliable standbys al
holiday time, but lots o' folks like t'
he a little original an’ give somethin'
out o' th' ordinary, somethin’ onus
ual, somethin' that somebuddy s been
hankerin' fer. It aline a poll a Ohriat
tnuN t’ git somethin' that don’t fli
aomethlti* thnt'a got t’ he * hopped
off nr exchanged, or aorrupthin' that
deatroya our confidence In aotna de.tr
one’a tnate or Judgment. W e ahouldn't
jest try t' ahow that we tnenn well,
but we ahould try t* give aoinctldn
hotI) appropriate an' acceptable nt
fhrlatmu* time. Ker luatam e, tin t'a
nccklloa t' stilt ever’buddy, even
nrcUtlea that fit In nn* harmonize
with an Adnm’a tipple\ an’ > It th
(‘hrlatimiM necktie haa vnuaed more
anguish an’ autTerln' nn’ ridicule than
all other glfta put t’grther. More In
difference, poor taste, rnt ehaaneaa art’
general disregard kin he reflected in
th' gift of a necktie than in any other
article o' merchandise, not exceptin'
pock a. If we wlah f give a necktie
t* poniebuddy we ahould go Inf n re
putahle liaherdnahery an’ pay, "We
want t' buy a necktl* far a man with
black tj ph, gray hair, tall an retlr.
In'." nn' IIipii leave'it t' 111' clerk
I ie*ci ll>e your man nr youth. 1»oti't
JeM buy a nerktle like you'd buy a
broom or a hatrhet. Tlici a too much
bit or mbs t'hrletmu* glvln'. A gift
n.«y allow that aonieone vvu* thlnkln'
of tin. but too often It allows that
amnion, don't know very much about
ui« Th’ th at of A pi lie* lutin'! a niln
ule too aonn t' l.pgliT l' cant about
for a t'hrlatniua present for aonieone
vve real I,v rare for. Hut I’hrlatniua b
a gi and ule inatllutlnn even If we dr
gll loo many fountain pen* or cornet
cover*. It *lir» ever'budily up an'
*pt* 'em t‘ takln' atoek o' ttier friend*
tm' conjurin' up forgotten relative*,
an' It * til one big festival o' th' year
v lion little children come Ini' Ihei
own, lh' ou* big anniversary »•' th'
whole lear that Knock* u* loose an1
thaw* u* out *n' make* u* think of
othei a.
(CopiTlcht. 1*21 i
I
n’t want to see him in the white
House. And jet, curiously enough,
one of the main purposes each has
had in wanting power is the same
with both men. Ford thinks the rail
roads are badly managed and tadly
operated, and financed more in the
interest of the financiers than in the
interest of the stockholders or the
public. And Ford, thinking this,
would like to try his own hand at
running the railroad show. McAdoo
also thinks the railroads are badly
managed and badlj" operated and ft
nanced In the interest of the finan
ciers rather than the stockholders or
the public. McAdoo thinks this, and
probably the principal motive inspir
ing him to try to be president is the
w ish to do something about the rail
roads.
And jet. although both men have
(lie same Issue and same purpose, each
apparentlj- distrusts the others ca
pacity to achieve that purpose In the
best way. Certainly Ford distrusts
McAdoo. and one can rea,diiy infer
that McAdoo distrusts Ford.
Why (oolidge Boost?
Washington speculated a good deal
on why Ford did tt. and why he did it
at just this time. The reasons as
given in current gossip here include
the following:
That Ford is Ford—he says what
lie feels like saying at the time he
feels like it, and doesn’t give much
thought to time, place or consequence
That Ford has come to feel that
Coolidge has both the wish to give
Ford a square deal about Muscle
Shoals—and the sort of will power
that carries wishes into deeds. Most
of us here in Washington have felt
that Ford hasn't quite had a square
deal about A(uscle Shoals. We didn’t
know much about it except that Ford
had made an oner, ana mat no one
else duplicated it.
Apparently Ford has come to think
that Coolidge means to deal with his
Muscle Shoals offer exclusively on Its
merits.
That Ford has come to think highly
of Hoover, and, because Hoover Is in
Coolidge s cabinet, has come to think
highly of Coolidge. Some of those who
talk to Ford report him as speaking
favorably of Hoover lately. Hoover,
being an engineer and more or less a
student and expert In the field of
standardized manufacturing. talks
Ford's language.
Does Not Want Presidency.
But probably the biggest reason !s
tliat Ford does not want, and never
has really wanted, the presidency. For
three or four months people who have
talked with Ford report him as being
absorbed In his various industrial en
terprises. He has been introducing a
new method of assembling the parts
of his factory and hopes to be able
to produce his automobile still more
economically. He Is greatly Interest
ed In some water power and other
industrial developments in various
parts of the country; and his mind
Is full of Muscle Shoals. Ford has
the type of mind that becomes com
pletely obsessed by whstever It Is oc
cupied with, and he has been so much
Interested In these things that he
hasn't paid as much attention to the
zealous persons who have been put
ting him forward for the presidency
as the public was led to suppose by
the loquaciousness of the boomers.
Coolidge Helped.
Unquestionably Coolidge was great
ly helped by what Ford did. All the
reports coming to Washington from
the west show that. Ford's endorse
all the radical* and progressives In
the west that Coolidge Is, in Ford's
phrase, "all right.”
In proportion as Coolidge was help
ed MrAdoo and Johnson were cor
respondingly harmed. Some of the
adherents of these latter have been
trying to find some comfort by say
ing that Johnson in the republican
party and McAdoo In the democratic
party will be the beneficiaries of those
voters who would have been for
Ford if Ford had been willing to run.
There may be something In that, but
It doesn't weigh greatly in compari
son with the other effect of Ford's
recent utterance—namely. the as
surance his endorsement carries that
Coolidge is as progressive a president
as any reasonable person can want—
progressive as Ford himself. That
implication is Inevitable, and tt must
necessarily have a powerful political
effect favorable to Coolidge. As re
gards reputation for being a progres
sive. all Coolidge needs to do now
is to live up to Ford's recommenda
tion.
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